Would You Pick $58 Out Of Dog Poop?

In these tough financial times, you have to make your money any way you can. And if that includes extricating some cash from the recently deposited canine feces, well… okay, that’s a bit gross. But that didn’t stop a man in St. Louis from doing it.

A man working for a company called — no joke — DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal was called to, you guessed it, remove some pet waste. And while going about his tasks, he noticed there was a different kind of mysterious green stuff inside a pile of pooch poop.

It was $58 in cash.

After mulling over what to do, the man ultimately opted to extricate the currency, which he then sanitized and placed into a plastic baggy. Rather than pocket the passed bills, he returned them to the client.

While the money was worse for wear following its trip through the doggy’s digestive system, the serial numbers will still intact, meaning the money could be exchanged for less-soiled bills at a bank.

I’m wondering how they stay in business. Are there really that many people out there needed poo removed from their sidewalks? And couldn’t you just use a stick or something to put it in a baggie yourself, for free?

Some dog owners have their dogs poo in the back yard. Over the course of a month, a medium-sized dog can cover a lot of real estate with doody; since it’s outside and thus not stinking up the house, most owners don’t bother with cleaning it up or doing anything with it. (When I was a kid, our most vile punishment was digging a hole and shoveling all of the dog poo into it.)

There are totally companies that will take your money to handle this basic pet-ownership chore. Public parks and dog parks also probably hire these sorts of services.

They’re not as bad as the people who intentionally ran their dogs through our land trying to scare the deer into their lease. The second time it happened, four of the five dogs didn’t make it out. The fifth one wouldn’t have made it either, but my dad said his gun jammed.

The police would either laugh and not respond or take at minimum two hours to respond. The dogs had intentionally caused harm to our livestock, and their owners had been warned about releasing the dogs on our property. They flatly denied ever coming on to our property and/or releasing their dogs there even though the deercam had some nice pictures of them doing just that. The dogs may not have deserved it, but as there is no “animal control” in our area and killing humans is even less acceptable than killing dogs, they were the ones that suffered.

Hold on, can you explain if you have deer? Are they as livestock, or rehab, or are they just like my parents – they end up in the backyard? I’m interested.

With that said – anything that endangers livestock deserves a bullet. Dog, human, whatever. FWIW, a rottweiler has the the strongest bite force of any domestic dog and they have herding in their blood. I couple of them would make quick work of the neighborhood dogs.

tasering a dog does not always kill, yes. But tasering a human can cause perminent damage, and dogs are in general MUCH smaller beings then humans. so for you to tase a dog = FAILLLLL at human decency.

There are horses and cows in fields that sit on about 190 acres. It isn’t unusual to see several deer grazing in the fields with the livestock. Only about 10-15 acres are field while the rest is forested. There is a barn, wellshed, and a camp that is currently used as storage. All of the fields and buildings are located almost 1/4 mile into the property.

I borrowed my friend’s deercam to find out why the livestock had suddenly started tearing through fences like they weren’t there, wounding themselves pretty badly sometimes. This was probably not the second time these dogs had been set loose on our property but the fifth or sixth time at least. I can only prove that they were there twice, but they haven’t returned since, because as I understand it those were some pretty expensive dogs.

I can understand a dog or two getting lost and wandering through the property, and even knowing that these were set loose intentionally I wouldn’t have shot them. Had I been there that day, I would have tried to catch them and release them down the road 40 or 50 miles away.

There are other ways to deal with the dogs that stupid people let run wild. Its not the animals fault they were given to jerks. More unacceptable to kill humans? Sure maybe as far as the law in concerned, but in this exact case, it would have made more sense to shoot the people that did this, killing their dogs will only make them get new ones to do the same thing.

Okay, don’t know that I would have given it back after cleaning it myself. Then again, I don’t do that for pay. If that guy didn’t earn himself a lifetime customer there, or failing that a $58 tip…
Poor dog, though.

Hmm. Would bills make it through an autoclave? Something tells me they wouldn’t.

Nonetheless, I’d take a few hours to sterilize the money in every way I know. I’d boil it in water, I’d soak it in alcohol, I’d run it through a clothes washer and a dishwasher … yeah, I’d clean it pretty well. But the answer is yes.

Sure I would. I’d use the same trick as picking up dog poop by hand — put hand inside plastic bag, pick through poop using bag as glove, then turn bag inside out, leaving poop-covered money inside bag and clean side of bag on the outside. No need to touch the poop with bare hands.

Then I’d take the money home and wear gloves to wash it in hot water and soap.

Maybe it’s just that I’ve worked in bio labs, but as long as I can wear gloves and breathe through my mouth if it stinks, I’m cool with pretty much anything.

Heck, I had to dig through my kid’s nasty diaper poop to find the dime he swallowed, to make sure it passed. Since I was already there, I figured, ‘what the heck’. Washed it, rinsed in alcohol, and is now stored in a ziploc bag. I can spring it on him during his first date, or prom night, or something to maximize the embarrassment.

That’s why god invented plastic gloves (heavy duty) and clothes pins. I’d do it, but you bet I’d run it through the gentle wash cycle and take it to the bank in a plastic zip-lock bag (and warn the teller).